Hypothesis 8

The pillars of the earth occur in a few places in scripture. We can incorporate them into the Biblical narrative we're constructing to explain the development of the Spherical Hollow Earth Model (SHEM).

The Bars of the Pit

"The bars of the pit" is a synonym for "the pillars of the earth." They're in the great gulf or "mega chasm" which is the region of Earth's interior which popular science (SciPop) calls the "liquid outer core."

Sheol

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the crust, mantle, great gulf and hell.

Sheol refers to life beyond the grave, quite literally an underworld realm of the dead. It's also modified in a variety of ways which can be grouped to correspond to the main regions of the interior of the Earth.

Tehom was Wet. Sheol is Dry

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the relative depth of Noah's flood

The space in the interior of the Earth formerly occupied by the great deep is now a great gulf (chasm) of open space that Jesus spoke of in Luke 16:26. The open space is no longer referred to as tehom, it's now sheol.

Established Science

Cutaway of planet earth showing hell at the center

There was a time when we stopped using the phrase cluelessness event horizon because we thought that it was needlessly judgmental. Sadly, it serves such an essential function that it's here to stay.